giveitaway

Definitely the first link, the second one will screw up your bass big time.

Use a 30 watt soldering iron. It's not really explained in the first link but what you need to do is stroke your fret (going up and down) to warm it. Once you feel it get warm and start smelling the wood burning (a few seconds) then it's time to pull your fret out with end nippers by squeezing gently under the fret. DO NOT pull out the fret once you gripped it. Just let the nipper squeeze it out by squeezing it in different places in the length of it ( the fret, that is)

What the soldering iron does is melt whatever glue that might have been used to put the frets it and lightly burns the wood of the fretboard which helps prevent chipping of your fb when you pull out those frets. If you see any chips come out, glue them back in right away before you go on.

Yeah i Was already going to do that, but i was concerned about which way to fill in the frets. I think i'll go with the veneers. thanks guys.

I'm going to defret my jazz bass knockoff and i was wondering which one of these methods you think would be better.

http://www.geocities.com/charlesarms/

or

http://users.skynet.be/sky88241/defretting_site/page1.htm

Basically either using hardwood slats or using wood filler (im not sure that i would follow either of those exactly). The slats would be harder to do because i would have to sand each of them to get the right neck radius, but it might have some advantages. What do you guys think? have any of you defretted one and which method did you use?

So i was thinking of something funky for my project bass (used squire P-bass) this summer, and i thought of a checkerboard paint job (yes i'm feeling adventurous). I think i would just do it on the front so i wouldnt have to worry about the curves. Any ideas on how to do it, i'm thinking of 1 inch squares, black and white with the base (back and sides) white. Stencils? carefully cut masking tape? im not really sure.

sounds cool